[00:51.98]What can you see in the picture?
[01:02.64]Can you see anything unusual inside the cart?
[01:13.09]Do you think it strange?
[01:20.17]Where did Revolutionary B want to go?
[01:36.21]He wanted to go into the castle
[01:40.62]Who helped him?
[01:44.07]A servant.
[01:48.30]What did they do?
[01:51.23]They set fire to the castle.
[01:55.44]Language points
[02:04.87]1)The years is 1789 in France.
[02:38.82]The French Revolution broke out in July.1789.
[02:44.86]In the revolution the poor of the cities
[02:50.11]and the peasants in the country rose up against the king and nobles.
[02:55.99]The famous novel,A Tale of Two Cities.
[03:01.84]written by Charles Dickens,was beased on this event.
[03:08.89]2)The guards couldn't have been watching very carefully.
[03:21.77]can't/couldn't + have been doing
[03:46.61]It's very late now.Jack can't have been waitting at the bus stop.
[04:01.87]All the lights were out.They couldn't have been working in the factory.
[04:08.03]3)It was very early in the morning and it was still dark.
[04:19.45]As a result,it was very to hide and not to be seen.
[04:25.48]4)You must have been mad to speak to the servant!
[04:31.33]She might have called for help.
[05:05.68]There's the doorbell.It must be Roger.
[05:17.47]Mary must catch a cold;she has a high fever.
[05:27.31]Mary must have caught a cold;she had a high fever last night.
[05:48.79]They must have arrived at the airport by now,
[05:57.54]and might be here in half an hour.
[06:31.68]You were stupid to try climbing up there.
[06:36.43]You might have killed yourself.
[06:50.31]What do you think that noise was?
[06:54.67]It might have been a cat.
[07:12.72]5)You might both have been cought and killed!
[07:36.65]I might have been trapped in the fire if I had not run away fast enough.
[07:51.41]It was dangerous for you to try swimming in the river.
[07:56.45]You might have been eaten by the fish.
[08:10.50]1.Charles Dickens(1812-1870)
[08:25.84]He's the great nineteenth century English novelist.
[08:31.27]He combined great writing with the ability to write popular stories
[08:37.64]full of interesting characters.
[08:41.48]His many books are mostly about life in Victorian England
[08:48.04]and often deseribe the hard conditions in which poor people lived.
[08:54.60]His early novels,which include Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist,
[09:02.22]were written in parts for magazines.
[09:06.48]His later books include David Copperfield,
[09:11.76]A Take of Two Cities and Great Expectation.
[09:17.04]2.A Tale of Two Cities
[09:28.79]It is set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution.
[09:38.46]Charles Darnay is a young French aristocrat
[09:44.41]who disagrees with the cruel way his family has been treating poor people.
[09:53.06]He moves to London and falls in love with Lucie,
[09:59.72]the daughter of an old doctor who had been put in prison by Darnay's family.
[10:07.29]Darnay marries Lcuie before going back to France to rescue an old servant,
[10:16.12]but he is rescue there and condemned to death.
[10:21.98]He is saved by an Englishman,Sydney Carton,
[10:27.70]who is also in love with Lucie.
[10:32.06]The two men look very similar,
[10:36.13]and Sidney takes Charles's place on the scaffold.
[10:42.19]What have you learnt about Dr Manette?
[10:59.75]Father of Lucie Manette;
[11:03.59]His wife died when Lucie was a baby;
[11:08.73]He attended a peasant boy and a girl,both of whom died;
[11:14.38]He knew that they had been badly treated,
[11:22.03]so he was put in prison to keep his silence;
[11:27.28]He spent many years in the Bastille in Paris,where he used to make shoes;
[11:36.35]While in prison he became mentally disturbed and his hair truned white;
[11:44.81]He returned to England and got gradually better and stronger.
[11:50.77]Dr Manette Father of Lucie Manette.
[12:39.33]He spent many years in the Bastille prison in Paris,
[12:46.09]where he uaed to make shoes.
[12:50.25]Lucie manette Daughter of Dr Manette.
[12:55.29]Her mother died when she was a baby.
[12:59.65]She was brought up in England
[13:03.41]Charles Darnay The nephew of the cruel marquis St.Evremonde.
[13:13.68]He left France and came to live in England
[13:18.93]because he hated the way of life of the rich French nobles.
[13:25.98]Married Lucie Manette.
[13:31.02]Sydney Carton A single man.Looked very like Charles Darnay.
[13:40.38]He fell in love with Lucie Manette.
[13:44.53]He promised her that he would do anything he could for her
[13:50.69]to make sure of her happiness.
[13:54.66]Monsieur Defarge Lived in Paris and bad a wine shop.
[14:04.09]Marquis St Evremonde Treated a peasant boy and his sister very badly.
[14:14.15]His brother wounded the peasant bou in a fight.
[14:19.30]They had Dr Manette put in prison
[14:23.95]so that he should not talk in public about this matter.
[14:29.83]Language points
[14:37.87]1)They had come from England,
[14:41.03]having heard the strange news that Dr Manette,
[14:46.10]Lucie's father,was alive and was living in Paris.
[15:24.34]Having finished his work,he went home.
[15:29.10]=After he had finished his work,he went home.
[15:48.27]She felt very sad,having learned the death of her mother.
[15:55.64]=She felt very sad,ad she had learned the death of her mother.
[16:04.18]Having broken his glasses,he couldn't read the newspaper.
[16:09.74]As he had broken his glasses,he couldn't read the newspaper.
[16:24.58]2)Defarge was pleased at their arrival.
[16:36.36]be pleased at/about/with
[16:48.93]They were very much pleased at the good news.
[16:54.26]I wasn't very pleased with my exam results.
[16:59.69]The boss is very pleased with you/your work.
[17:08.52]be pleased to do
[17:19.28]I'm very pleased to see/meet you.
[17:26.36]We are pleased to know the progress you have made.
[17:33.13]3)Dr Manette,having been kept a prisoner in the Bastille,
[17:43.76]Paris's most important prison,for many years,
[17:49.22]had recently been set free...
[18:05.57]having been + 过去分词
[18:51.91]The boy,haivng been wounded by the noble,died a few days later.
[18:59.96]=After he had been wounded by the noble,the boy died...
[19:10.22]Having been translated into many language,
[19:14.95]his book soon became well know in the world.
[19:19.52]=As it had been translated into many languages,his book became...
[19:40.76]Having been given such a good chance,
[19:46.64]hoe could be let it pass away?
[20:03.28]paris's/paris'prison
[20:32.61]Charles's/Charles's father
[20:36.38]Engels's/Engels'works
[20:40.61]4)All day long he worked at making shoes,as he had done in prison.
[20:53.64]work at
[21:00.80]Charles is still working at his new book.
[21:05.66]He won't join us in the travel.
[21:16.11]The government is working hard at improving the live conditions of the teachers.
[21:24.15]When in Rome,do as Romans do.
[21:51.11]She is working at her play as she did last year.
[22:01.67]5)Dr Manette had been put in prison for no good reason.
[22:20.42]be put into/in prison
[22:27.79]be sent to prison
[22:33.35]be in prison
[22:55.29]He has been in prison for three years.
[23:02.06]The thief was sent to prison for a year.
[23:25.81]Mrs White went to the prison to visit her husband.
[23:38.97]They broke into the prison and set free all the prisoners.
[23:51.04]He is in prison
[23:55.69]He is in the prison.
[24:04.34]for...reason
[24:12.98]for this/that reason
[24:21.45]for no reason
[24:25.00]for some reason
[24:30.46]for a simple reason
[24:35.50]for the reason of health
[24:40.83]for no good reason
[24:50.10]Don't punish the boy for no good reason.
[24:57.05]He had to give up teaching for the reason of health.
[25:05.83]6)Although Lucie married Charles,
[25:13.77]Sydney promised her that he would always do anything
[25:19.62] he could for her to make sure of her happiness.
[25:35.37]make sure/ make sure of sth./doing sth.
[25:51.12]You'd better make sure of the time and place.
[25:56.27]Arrive early at the station to make sure of getting a ticket.
[26:02.46]Can you make sure that you will succeed?
[26:08.99]Please make sure that the lights are turned off.
[26:14.43]7)So he left France,
[26:20.96]preferring to give up the fortune that would one day come to him
[26:26.63]and went to live in England.
[26:38.56]give up
[26:47.39]She gave up her job to look after her baby.
[26:53.27]This puzzle in works is too difficult;I shall give it up.
[27:08.24]Don't give up.English may be hard,but it's so usefull.
[27:14.48]Language points
[27:22.14]1.The poor of the cities and the peasants in the country,
[27:28.67]having lived such a hard life for so long,
[27:33.11]took up their guns and knives and began to kill the rich nobles.
[27:49.46]the poor=poor people
[28:02.02]The young respect the old;the old love the young.
[28:11.09]All the wounded have been sent to hospital.
[28:21.25]take up:take and get ready to fight take up arms
[28:36.01]2.In the country the revolutionaries set fire to the noble's castle
[28:44.08]and burnt them to the ground.
[28:55.55]set fire to (sth)/set(sth.) on fire
[29:11.59]He set fire to the building.
[29:15.14]He set the building on fire.
[29:19.82]The waste paper should be set fire to.
[29:24.68]They set fire to the house,and it was brunt(down)to the ground.
[29:39.43]burn..to the ground:completely destroy.
[29:47.87]3.Some time later,
[29:52.60]Charles Darnay found at a bank in London
[29:58.06]a letter from France addressed to him,
[30:03.13]or rather to the Maquis St.Evremonde,for his father and uncle were now dead.
[30:55.58]The letter is wrongly addressed.
[31:03.44]This package is not addressed to me.
[31:10.21]or rather
[31:24.47]We got home late last night,or rather,early this morning.
[31:36.33]He is an English teacher,or rather,a professor of English.
[31:42.68]4.On reading it,
[31:46.65]he found that a servant of the family in France had been put in prison,
[31:53.10]through no fault of his own.
[32:02.98]on reading it=As soon as he read the letter
[32:13.11]on/upon doing
[32:23.35]On arriving at the station,he found his wife waiting to meet him.
[32:29.28]The woman cried out on/upon hearing the strange whistle.
[32:51.75]however,on his arrival in Paris,
[32:56.71]he was recognized as a noble and thrown into prison.
[33:08.86]on his arrival in Paris=on arriving in Paris
[33:17.40]=as soon as he arrived in Paris.
[33:35.87]On/upon his return from Beijing,he began his research work.
[33:42.35]The boys and girls stood up on the entrance of the headmaster.
[33:53.21]through + n./+ doing
[34:17.46]He lost his job through his carelessness.
[34:26.10]The boy became ill through eating too much.
[34:31.07]The accident happened through no fault of yours.
[34:40.00]5.When the people in the court heard this,
[34:45.46]there was no doubt in their minds
[34:49.25]that the St.Evremonde family had done much wrong.
[34:55.41]There was no doubt in their minds:
[35:00.06]=They did not doubt;they were absolutely certain.
[35:26.92]do wrong/do right
[35:49.93]I felt I had done wrong
[35:55.78]You did wrong to tell her the secret.
[36:06.05]You did quite right to accept the invitation.
[36:13.81]do good/do harm
[36:26.47]do one's best
[36:33.74]You should do good all your life.
[36:40.40]Any kind of pollution will do harm to health.
[36:50.98]We have done our best to help him.
[36:56.23]6)Charles was sentenced to death
[37:02.71]and would have his head cut off the next day.
[37:24.86]be sentenced to
[37:33.50]He was sentenced to death by the court.
[37:40.06]Three of them were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
[37:51.71]They were sentenced to two year's hard labour.
[38:00.67]have + 名词+ p.p
[38:12.64]She had her money stolen.
[38:19.40]He had his leg injured in the accident.
[38:24.08]I had my hair cut only yesterday.
[38:28.62]I have your medicine prepared now.
[38:33.59]7.Considering that Charles would be sentenced to death.
[38:39.93]he went ot a chemist's shop and bought some special medicine.
[38:51.90]Konwing that she was an experienced teacher,they often asked her for help.
[39:12.85]8.His final thoughts were:"It is far,far better thing that I do,
[39:21.68]than I have ever done;it is a far,far better rest
[39:27.24]that I go to than I have ever known." |